Thursday, January 26, 1950
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
Page 3
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
Anti-Communists Play Into Anti-Semites
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Hand
By PIIINEAS J. BIRON
THE AMERICAN JEWISH LEAGUE Against Corn-
1 . munism Inc., of which ex-Rabbi Benjamin Schultz
is the executive director, is now
accusing the Hillel Foundations of
the Bnai Brith of harboring pro-
Communists and fellow travellers
in key positions.
Schultz's latest target is Rabbi
Herman I. Pollack, director of the
Hillel men in the country.
" According to Schultz, the Hillel
Foundation of Brooklyn College was
suspended last summer by action
Of the Faculty Student Committee
on Student Activities.
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Hillel and 10 other groups (au-
cording to Schultz) sponsored a
Biron
4111 Blass stoppage in protest of the college administra-
tion's objection to the appearance on the campus of
one of the eleven Cometubists on trial at Foley
Square•
Well, what got Mr. Schultz is the fact that shortly
after this inc:dent Rabbi Pollack was invited to
speak at Brandeis University at the National Con-
ference of Hillel Foundations,
And to make matters worse for harassed Mr.
Schultz, he (that is Schultz) just discovered, to his
horror, that Rabbi Arthur Lelyveld, national director
of Hillel Foundations, "never hid his personal parti-
ality for Henry Wallace in the 1948 presidential
campaign."
The director of the Jewish League Against Com-
munism finds "these alarming facts sufficient basis
for a thorough investigation of the entire situation
by Bnai Brith."
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The December 1949 issue of the Railway Labor
Journal, official organ of the Brotherhood of Main-
tenance of Way Employes, the second largest railroad
union (an affiliate of the American Federation of
Labor) published a very strange editorial.
Under the title of "Nero Fiddled while Rome
Burned" the editorial, among other things, says:
"The names Greenberg, Ragenstrick, Stachel and
Wagenknect have a familiar ring and we would not
be amiss in pointing to their fatherland. Only more
stringent immigration laws can close the gates to the
undesirable whose ancestry has withstood the melting
pot of democracy. The Red tide must be turned away.
from our shores."
This quotation should please Mr. Schultz. It might
remind him that the most potent anti-Semitic formula
of today is to blend anti-Jewish poison with anti-
Communist slogans.
OFF THE RECORD
Page the American Jewish Committee.
Lammot duPont, one—if not the top man of the
duPont financial interests—is officially soliciting funds
for an anii-Semitic outfit. This is the hotest anti-
Semitic news since Henry Ford sponsored the publi-
cation of "The Elders of Zions."
Under date of Nov. 25, 1949, Lammot duPont on his
own stationery, which under his name specifies
"DuPont Building, Washington 98, Del.," pleads with
his "dear fellow Americans" in the following words;
"Last December, believing the National Economic
Council was doing outstanding work toward stemming
the tide of Communism and Socialism in this country,
I wrote to many Americans, urging them to contribute
to the Council.
"Now I have just read Council Letter No. 226 'There
is no Peace.' I am sure that you will conclude the
Council is doing a good job. Will you stretch a point
and make a contribution or make a larger contribution
and promptly?"
In case you don't know who the National Economic
Council is get the information from the American
Jewish Committee or the ADL.
The head of this Council is Merwin K. Hart, the
virulent anti-Semite who in one of his news letters
suggested that good Christians should arm them-
selves with guns to stop the Jewish danger.
'Out. Scoundrel'
,elvish War Bride Gets
Rough Deal front U. S.
By NATHAN ZIPRIN
(Guest Columnist, Estelle Brand)
PREAD SYMPATHY is in evidence here for Mrs. Ellen
WIDESPREAD
WIDES
A special subcommittee ap-
pointed by Harry Yudkoff, chair-
man of the Community Relations
Committee of the Jewish Com-
munity Council, has reviewed the
available material regarding the
riot in Chicago in November.
The subcommittee consisted of
Harry Nathan, Mrs. Jacob Souls
and David Rosin.
The committee adopted•re•om-
mendations for application to the
Detroit situation. One conclusion
was that the mayor's interracial
committee must be given full co-
operation.
The committee put much of the
blame for the Chicago disorders
on inept police handling and con-
trasted it with the police provi-
sions for handling similar situa-
tions in Detroit.
German-Jewish war bride of an American veteran,
who has been barred from the United States without so much as a
hearing. Not only was Mrs.
Knauff excluded but she was ,
confined on Ellis Island for six
weeks without access to counsel
and for eight months was re-
fused release on hail.
Knauff fled from Germany
to Czechoslovakia during the
Hitler regime. Later, as a refugee
in England, she served "efficient-
ly and honorably" in the Royal
Air-Force. When the war ended
she returned to Germany and
worked as a civilian employe of
The American Military Govern-
ment. Her record was excellent.
She was married to Kurt W.
Knauff, a U.S. soldier, in Frank-
furt in 1948. Knauff's service
record was unblemished. How-
ever, when he tried to bring his
bride to the United States under
the War Brides Act, she was ar-
bitrarily excluded on the ground
that her admission would be
"prejudicial to the interests of
the United States," There was
talk in government circles that
Mrs. Knauff served as an em-
ploye of the Czech Government
—but before Czechoslovakia fell
under Communist domination.
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THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
refused to tell either Mr. or 'Ars.
Knauff the reason for the ex-
clusion. The Attorney General
denied her a hearing because,
in his judgement. the disclosure
of information on which the ex-
clusion was based would itself
endanger public security.
The r' 1. of the Attorney Gen-
eral to bar Mrs. Knauff was up-
held by a 4 to 3 decision of the
Supreme Court. Dissenting, Jus-
tices Jackson, Black, and Frank-
furter did not like the smell of
the case. They called the result
"abrupt and brutal."
A majority of the court reach-
ed the decision because aliens
have no absolute r: to be ad-
mitted to the United States.
They come in only under a privi-
lege granted for the period of the
emergency connected with World
War II. Congress and the Presi-
dent authorized the Attorney
General to exclude aliens with-
out granting them a hearing—if
the charges against them involve
security secrets which should not
be disclosed in the public in-
terest. Because t h e national
emergency has never been offi-
cially terminated, this arrange-
ment is still in force.
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ALTHOUGH MRS. KNAUFF
was cleared a number of times
by U.S. Military Intelligence in
Europe, the law was the law and
the Justice Department's action
was upheld. Justice Jackson had
some interesting reflections on
the case. Said Jackson:
"Now this American citizen is
told he cannot bring his wife to
the United States, but he will not
be told why. He must abandon
his bride •to live in his own
country or forsake his country
to live with his bride.
"So he went to court and
sought a writ of habeas corpus,
which we never tire of citing to
Europe as the unanswerable evi-
dence that our free country per-
mits no arbitrary official deten-
tion. And the government tells
the court that not even a court
can find out why the girl is ex-
cluded. But it says even if we
cannot get any reasons for it
we must say it is legal: security
requires it.
"Security is like liberty in that
many are the crimes committed
in its name. The menace to the
security of this country, be it
great as it may, from this girl's
admission is as nothing com-
pared to the menace to the free
institution inherent in procedures
of this pattern. In the name of
security the police state justifies
its arbitrary oppressions on evi-
dence that is secret, because
security might be prejudiced if
it were brought to light in hear-
ings.
"The plea that evidence of
guilt must be secret is abhorrent
to free men, because it provides
a cloak for the malevolent, the
misinformed, the meddlesome,
and the corrupt to play the role
of informers undetected and un-
corrected.".
Chicago Riots
Evaluated by
Council Group
HOLLAND RECOGNIZES
ISRAEL
June Kahn takes the broom to Bernard Cassels at a rehearsal for
the old fashion Mela Drama which will be presented by the
Ivan S. Bloch Lodge, Bnai Brith, at their fund-raising event. The
affair will be held at 8:30 p.m. Saturday at Mayfair Catering,
Tickets can be purchased at the door.
Jerusalem Plan 'Dangerous,'
Christian Fact-Finders Say
NEW YORK — (Special) — A
fact-finding group of six Chris-
tian leaders, just returned from
Jerusalem, announced its con-
viction that it considered inter-
nationalization of Jerusalem as
"dangerous and unnecessary."
Instead, the group recommend-
ed the establishment of a UN
Commission ''with no territorial
sovereignty" to assure the "free
accessibility of the Christian
world of the holy places of Jeru-
salem."
The group was constituted
under the auspices of the Amer-
ican Christian Palestine Commit-
tee.
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